Narrative Poetry - Poetry that tells a story, has a plot, setting, characters and a theme and is written in verse.
Ballad - a poem that tells a story often of a single historical or legendary person. Ballads are usually made up of 4 line stanzas and the stanzas normally have the same rhythm and ryhme scheme.
Dramatic Poetry - Poetry in which the speaker is clearly someone other than the poet, sometimes consists of dialogue.
Dramatic Monologue -
Dramatic Monologue - a speech in which a fictional character expresses his or her thoughts and feelings within a developing situation.
Lyric poetry -Lyric poetry - writers express their thoughts and feeling about a subject in brief but musical way.
Sonnet - A lyric poem of 14 lines with a set rhyme scheme
Figurative Language
Simile - compares one thing to another using like or as.
Metaphor - Compares one thing to another without using like or as.
Personification - Giving human qualities to non-human objects or ideas.
Poetry Terms
Repetition - the use again and again of a word or a phrase
Rhythm - pattern, or arrangement of accented and unaccented syllables
Mood - A feeling the poem creates
Tone - the attitude that a poet takes toward his or her subject or reader.
Imagery - a poets use of words to create mental pictures, or images, that communicate an experience, appels to the 5 senses.
Musical Devices - Refers to the various ways that poets use the sound of words to enrich their poetry. Also, known as sound devices.
Onomontopeia -
Alliteration -
Assonace -
Consance -
Meter -
Stanza - a formal division of lines in a poem considered as a unit
Rhyme Scheme - A regular pattern of the rhymming words at the end of each line in a poem Aphorisms - a brief saying that express a basic truth.
Notes
Types of Poems
Narrative Poetry - Poetry that tells a story, has a plot, setting, characters and a theme and is written in verse.
Ballad - a poem that tells a story often of a single historical or legendary person. Ballads are usually made up of 4 line stanzas and the stanzas normally have the same rhythm and ryhme scheme.
Dramatic Poetry - Poetry in which the speaker is clearly someone other than the poet, sometimes consists of dialogue.
Dramatic Monologue -
Dramatic Monologue - a speech in which a fictional character expresses his or her thoughts and feelings within a developing situation.
Lyric poetry -Lyric poetry - writers express their thoughts and feeling about a subject in brief but musical way.
Sonnet - A lyric poem of 14 lines with a set rhyme scheme
Figurative Language
Simile - compares one thing to another using like or as.
Metaphor - Compares one thing to another without using like or as.
Personification - Giving human qualities to non-human objects or ideas.
Poetry Terms
Repetition - the use again and again of a word or a phrase
Rhythm - pattern, or arrangement of accented and unaccented syllables
Mood - A feeling the poem creates
Tone - the attitude that a poet takes toward his or her subject or reader.
Imagery - a poets use of words to create mental pictures, or images, that communicate an experience, appels to the 5 senses.
Musical Devices - Refers to the various ways that poets use the sound of words to enrich their poetry. Also, known as sound devices.
Onomontopeia -
Alliteration -
Assonace -
Consance -
Meter -
Stanza - a formal division of lines in a poem considered as a unit
Rhyme Scheme - A regular pattern of the rhymming words at the end of each line in a poem Aphorisms - a brief saying that express a basic truth.